States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions.
States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions.
I believe in the equality of man; and I believe that religious duties consist in doing justice, loving mercy, and endeavoring to make our fellow-creatures happy.
Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning – an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies.
Every religion is good that teaches man to be good; and I know of none that instructs him to be bad.
A man does what he must – in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures – and that is the basis of all human morality.
We ought to esteem it of the greatest importance that the fictions which children first hear should be adapted in the most perfect manner to the promotion of virtue.
I’m a preacher’s kid, and we were always told, Act right all the time, because someone’s always watching.
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